The governor will travel to Indonesia next month to strengthen emergency preparedness partnerships between that nation and Hawai'i.

It will be her first official visit to the country as governor.

Gov. Linda Lingle will spend five days in Jakarta, meeting with tsunami experts, government officials and members of the military. She will then zip off to Tokyo and Okinawa, where she will focus on tourism and economic opportunities. Her trip runs from June 9 to 22.

Accompanying Lingle throughout the trip will be tsunami and region experts, members of her administration and tourism officials.

A cost estimate for her trip is still being tallied, but her office said yesterday her expenses and those of two of her staff members will come out of the governor's budget.

The trip costs for her administration officials will come out of the budgets for their respective departments, the governor's office said.

There will be about 13 people accompanying Lingle to Indonesia, including Maj. Gen. Robert Lee, the state's adjutant general and director of state Civil Defense. About 27 people will go with her to Japan.

Lee has said security around the governor will be extremely tight in Indonesia, where the U.S. State Department urges American travelers to be careful in light of recent terrorist attacks there against Westerners.

He declined to go into details on the precautions taken for the governor, but said her security detail will include Indonesian and Hawai'i military.

In a news release, the governor said the trip is aimed at strengthening "Hawai'i's strategic role in the Asia-Pacific region."

In Indonesia, she will stress partnerships with the military and government officials that could help Hawai'i in the event of a disaster.

She will also talk about how Hawai'i could come to Indonesia's aid.

Charles McCreary, executive director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 'Ewa Beach, said he will travel with Lingle to Indonesia as part of an ongoing international effort to monitor progress in that country since a massive tsunami in December 2004 killed more than 200,000.

"Hawai'i is really looked to as a place that leads the world in terms of tsunami preparedness," McCreary said.

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